It's still quite uncertain just where and when the craft will fall, although it is expected to reenter around 2:26 am ET on May 10 +/- 4.35 hours.

The Soviet Union’s pioneering space missions were among the first to penetrate the thick, toxic clouds of Venus and reveal ...

This probe captured incredible images of Venus' mysterious surface moments before succumbing to its extreme atmosphere. Discover the groundbreaking insights revealed by its final moments, and what ...

its camera – the Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, or WISPR – captured images of Venus' scorching-hot surface through the thick cloud cover. "The WISPR cameras can see through the ...

Another processed image of the planet Venus taken by the Magellan probe that orbited the planet from 1990 to 1994. The planet is known for its hot surface. Another processed image of the planet ...

Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

When scientists recently took a closer look at archival images of the surface of Venus, they discovered something new: evidence of volcanic activity on Earth’s “twin.” The NASA Magellan ...

as NASA has yet to land a spacecraft on the planet’s surface. Instead, the only photos of Venus’ surface we have to look at were captured by Soviet-era spacecraft over 40 years ago.

For nearly 10 years, there’s been only one spacecraft able to keep its cool above the hellish landscape of Venus. The Japanese Akatsuki probe was sent to Earth’s neighboring planet to observe ...

Kosmos 482 was launched just four days after the Soviet Venera 8 spacecraft, which successfully landed on Venus and survived on its surface for nearly an hour. Kosmos 482 might have done the same ...

Nasa’s Magellan probe orbited Venus from August 1990 to October 1994 and used this sort of radar technique to map the planet’s surface with a spatial resolution of about a hundred meters at best.

A Japanese Venus probe fired its main engine last Wednesday ... becoming an inhospitable world with thick sulfuric-acid clouds and surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, JAXA officials ...